So I just finished my 6-day rotation. I ended up with 4 days of home reserve (see below). On the night of Day 4, I get the usual ding of my Blackberry with the next day's plans and was half expecting more home reserve. Instead I got airline reservations to San Francisco. So, on Day 5 of 6, I drive to JFK and airline clear across the country to San Francisco. From San Fran, I get a sedan to take me to the San Jose airport about 30 minutes away where the jet that I was assigned to was located. Get there, get it ready, and the two passengers show up 30 minutes early. Blast off and fly from San Jose down to Carlsbad, which is about 400 miles south (Cali is a big state), near San Diego. That took about 50 whole minutes.
Once we got the jet all shut down and put to bed for the night, I turned on my Blackberry and was amused to find airline reservations to go home the next day. I had been kind of expecting to have a west coast to east coast flight on Sunday morning that would take me back towards home and (the way I saw it) justify them flying me all the way to the west coast, but nope, just that one dinky trip. So I airlined allll the way out there, "worked" for a whole two and a half hours tops, and airlined all the way back. This after sitting idle for 4 straight days. Oh well, makes sense to someone I guess. Now I'm off for the next eight days. Works for me...
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Hah! Nice schedule. I'm in Monterey (you flew over me). I've flown right seat (though have no training whatsoever; fiance was the single pilot) in a King Air 200 from Salinas to Carlsbad. Took us a bit longer than 50 mins ;-)
What jet(s) are you rated in?
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